Glare shield



Dec. 29, 1931. F. RABBIT 1,838,282

' GLARE SHIELD Filed May 8, 1929 17 ill Iii 'A M INVENTOR, 736 m Fnmi/Rabbit;

ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 29, 1931 UNITED STATES FRANK RABBIT, F BALTIMORE, MARYLANDGLARE SHIELD Application filed May 8, 1929. Serial No. 361,509.

This invention relates to glareshields for automobiles.

The main object of this invention is to provide an improved clampingdevice to hold glareshield-plates of colored glass or other transparentmaterial in a number of different adjusted positions, and to provide anexceedingly quick and easy means of applying and releasing the clamp.

Another object is to provide a device of this character including ajointed support on which the clamping means is adjustable in practicallyevery direction.

Another object is to provide for quickly and easily interchangingglareshield-plates.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in thefollowing details of description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings in which:

Figure 1 is a rear view of a device constructed in accordance with myinvention, three different adjustments being shown in the ful1-line andbroken-line positions.

Figure 2 is a left-side or edge view of the device, a part being shownin section.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view, the section being takenthrough the central part of the clamping device and the glareshieldingplate clamped thereby.

Figure 4 is a sectional view along the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a perspective View of one of the clamping aws.

Referring to the drawings in detail, in which similar referencecharacters correspond to similar parts in the several views, and inwhich the windshield-frame F and windshield-glass G are shown merely toillustrate the application of the device, the invention is now describedin detail as follows:

An angularly bent plate or bracket is secured to the windshield-frame byscrews or other appropriate means. The rearwardly extending wing 11 ofthe plate 10 is apertured to receive a screw-threaded end portion 12 ofa U-shaped arm which is provided with a shoulder 13 to abut against oneside of the car 11 while a thumb-nut 14 abuts against the other side ofsaid ear. By manipulation of this thumb-nut, the said nut 17 combine toclamp the flattened end 60 against the flattened end of the member 18,and to hold the latter in an infinite number of adjusted positions withrespect to the U- shaped arm 12-15.

The clamping device, which is more clearly shown in Figure 3, includes arod 19 which fits snugly and adjustably in the tubular member 18, andthe latter has a threaded aperture 20 which receives the thumb-screw 21.This thumb-screw normally bears against the rod. 19 and holds it in anyone of an infinite number of adjustments, both longitudinal andcircumferential or angular. The clamping device also includes twoclamping jaws 22 (one of which is shown separately in Figure 5) a.washer or sleeve 23 which abuts against lugs or ears 24 which form awidened part on the rod 19, a tubular member or tube 25, and a nut orthumb-nut 26, which latter is adjustable on a threaded end 27 of the rod19. The clamping jaws 22 are each provided with a groove 28 and with anapertured ear 29. The rod 19 extends through apertures 30 of the ears29. The glareshieldplate 31 has its upper and lower edges in therespective downwardly and upwardly facing grooves 28, and the length ofthe sleeve or tube 25 is such that it permits the clamping jaws to bepressed against the upper and lower edges of the plate 31 by tighteningthe thumb-nut 26. However, when the thumbnut 26 is loosened, the plate31 may be removed, and a plate of a difierent color may be substitutedaccording to the desire or necessity of the person who is to drive theautomobile and use the glareshield. When the plate 31 is removed, thejaws 22 retain their respective positions, or are retained by thecombined effect of the shoulder or sleeve 23, the tubular member or tube25 and the nut 26; and in this connection, it should be understood thatit is unnecessary to remove the nut 26 for removing and replacing theplates 31, for they can be slid along the grooves 28 for such removaland replacement and interchange and for their different adjustments.Moreover, it will be seen that the tubular'memberor tube 25 assists inholding the ears 29 substantially parallel to one another,

so the grooves 28 will not exert a bending.

pressure on the plate 31, thereby avoiding possible breakage of theplate 31 by such bending pressure.

Although I have described thisembodiment of my invention specifically, Ido not intend to limit my patent protection to these exact details ofconstruction and arrangement,'for the invention is susceptible ofnumerous changes within the scope of the inventive ideas as implied andclaimed.

lVhat I claim as my invention is:

In combination with a glareshield-plate and a tubular supportingelement, of a rod formed with a widened part between its end portions,one of said end portions being normally clamped in said tubularsupportingelement and being angularly and longitudinally slidabletherein when unclamped, the other end portion of said rod beingscrewtlireaded at its extremity, a clamping nut threaded on saidscrew-threaded end portion, a tube around said rod and between said nutand said widened part, and two jaws each including an apertured ear anda groove, the apertured ear of one clamping jaw being around said rodand normally clamped between said widened part and said tube, saidapertured ear of the other clamping j aw being around said rod andnormally clamped between said nut and tubular member, saidglareshield-plate having its upper and lower edges in the respectivegrooves of said clamping aws.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FRANK RABBIT.

